COMPLETE ARTERIAL REVASCULARIZATION USING THE MAMMARY Y-GRAFT

Citation
Cjam. Zeebregts et al., COMPLETE ARTERIAL REVASCULARIZATION USING THE MAMMARY Y-GRAFT, Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 38(1), 1997, pp. 51-52
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System",Surgery
ISSN journal
00219509
Volume
38
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
51 - 52
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9509(1997)38:1<51:CARUTM>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The recent trend is to revascularize the entire heart with arterial gr afts. Five selected patients were operated using the mammary Y-graft f or complete arterial revascularization. The immediate postoperative co urses were uneventful. One patient presented five months later with at ypical angina and a string phenomenon at the distal part of the Y-graf t on catheterization, without ischemic changes on stress test. The fou r other patients had no complaints and no ischemic changes on stress t est nine months to 4.5 years later. Using the mammary Y-graft a comple te arterial revascularization can be accomplished.